Privacy Policy

Thank you for visiting the U.S.
Global Change Research Information Office Web site and reviewing our privacy
policy. Our privacy policy is clear: We will collect no personal
information about you when you visit our website unless you choose to
provide that information to us.

Here is how we handle information about your visit to our website:

Information Collected and Stored Automatically

If you do nothing during your visit but browse through the website, read
pages, or download information, we will gather and store certain information
about your visit automatically. This information does not identify
you personally. We automatically collect and store only the following
information about your visit:

The Internet domain (for example, "xcompany.com" if you
use a private Internet access account, or "yourschool.edu"
if you connect from a university's domain) and IP address (an IP address
is a number that is automatically assigned to your computer whenever
you are surfing the Web) from which you access our website;

The type of browser and operating system used to access our site;

The date and time you access our site;

The pages you visit; and

If you linked to the U.S. Global Change Research Information Office
Web site from another website, the address of that website.

We use this information to help us make our site more useful to visitors
-- to learn about the number of visitors to our site and the types of
technology our visitors use. We do not track or record information
about individuals and their visits.

If You Send Us Personal Information

If you choose to provide us with personal information -- as in an e-mail
to the Web Site Manager or someone else, or by filling out a form with
your personal information and submitting it to us through our website
-- we use that information to respond to your message and to help us get
you the information you have requested. We treat emails the same way we
treat letters sent to the U.S. Global Change Research Information Office.
We do not collect personal information for any purpose other than to respond
to you. We only share the information you give us with another government
agency if your inquiry relates to that agency, or as otherwise required
by law. Moreover, we do not create individual profiles with the information
you provide or to give it to any private organizations. The U.S. Global
Change Research Information Office does not collect information
for commercial marketing.

Security, Intrusion, Detection

For site security purposes and to ensure that this service remains available
to all users, this computer system employs software programs to monitor
network traffic to identify unauthorized attempts to upload or change
information, or otherwise cause damage.

Links to Other Sites

Our Website has links to many other sites. Once you link to another site,
you are subject to the privacy policy of the new site.